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Producer at @commotioncbc; writer for @pitchfork, @stereogum, @torontostar; author of This Book Is Broken + Too Much Trouble

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As the Aughts Got Rolling, Clinic Covered Their Mugs and Wowed Radiohead

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By Stuart Berman Verified
| The Village Voice Verified
Editor’s note, July 14, 2026: Having recently weighed in on the Rolling Stones’ journey to the uncanny valley, we were perusing reviews of their now fully released album Foreign Tongues when we came across a terrific piece in Pitchfork. Want every track concisely described through apt adjectives, insightful historical comparisons, and broadly informed opinion, all conveyed with Sade-smooth prose and punctuated by the occasional LOL observation?
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The Rolling Stones: Foreign Tongues

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By Stuart Berman Verified
| Pitchfork Verified
I’ll leave it to others to provide Foreign Tongues with the traditional blessing that greets every new Rolling Stones album—“it’s their best since Some Girls!”—but I will say it features their best cover art since Some Girls. Created by Chicago painter Nathaniel Mary Quinn, the image mashes up caricatures of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood into a glorious grotesquerie that channels the colorful glam-trash aesthetics of the band’s late-’70s phase.
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Your Canada Day playlist: we ranked the 25 greatest Toronto songs of all time

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By Vernon Ayiku, Stuart Berman Verified, Emilie Hanskamp Verified
| The Toronto Star Verified
A lot of music has been recorded about Toronto, its landmarks and its people — both joyous celebrations and bitter complaints. Ahead of Canada Day, we asked our music writers and Culture staffers to come up with a list of the city’s greatest songs about itself. Our criteria: all are Toronto-specific songs by artists with a strong connection to our town; one song per artist — with one exception. As you might imagine, much blood was shed to arrive at this ranking.
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